Table Of Contents - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER SBS EDITION - UPDATE 3 User Manual

Table of contents

1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 8
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 8
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 9
1.2.1 Using the management console ................................................................................................................11
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................17
1.3.1 Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................18
1.3.2 Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................19
1.3.3 Management Console ................................................................................................................................21
1.3.4 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................21
1.3.5 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................22
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................22
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................22
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................23
1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................24
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 25
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................25
2.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................29
2.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................31
2.4 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................31
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................32
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................36
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................38
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................41
2.9 Tape support ............................................................................................................................43
2.9.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................43
2.9.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................44
2.10 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................45
2.11 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................46
2.11.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................46
2.11.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................47
2.11.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................48
2.11.4 Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................49
2.12 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................51
2.12.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................51
2.12.2 Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................52
2.12.3 Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................56
2.12.4 Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................56
2.12.5 Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................60
2.12.6 Deduplication .............................................................................................................................................63
2.12.7 Privileges for centralized management .....................................................................................................68
2.12.8 Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ..................................................72
3 Options .................................................................................................................................. 79
3.1 Console options .......................................................................................................................79